The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
Quote by GK Chesterton
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.